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The end

This is the end of this diary. Now it's a new year and the 366 days of 2016 are over. For me personally it's been an amazing year. Mostly thanks to everyone I've met during these days. For example I've had 221 people staying in my apartment via Airbnb or Couchsurfing. That's crazy!

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Day 366: Next year

Wow, what happened? December went by in a never ending row of parties, dinners, lunches and other gatherings with friends. One of the most frequent questions is what I'm gonna do next year. For a long time I didn't know for sure myself. But I was pretty confident some new opportunity would show up. And it did. I'm going to Argentina!

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Day 340: Home again!

After having spent a month traveling, where I've been in Rotterdam, the red light district of Amsterdam, and of Hague, and downtown LA and in the Mission District in San Fransisco I'm now trying to get used to not being surrounded by coffee shops, prostitutes and homeless people.

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Day 336: My first tongue taco

Yesterday I moved to a new place. I wanted to find some Couchsurfer to save some money, but it's always so hard. 29 000 hosts in San Francisco - how to choose? And then in the end it turns out most of them never logged in and never hosted anyway. I ended up sending two requests. One of them answered, some guy interested in meditation, "emphatic communication" etc.

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